3io ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



being entirely absent in all specimens that I have seen. De- 

 presstda is compared by its author with sen His, with which, in 

 my opinion, it has little affinity. So far as I know, senilis and 

 allies are partial, if not peculiar, to salt or alkaline flats ; de- 

 prcssnla has been taken b}- Dr. Fenyes on Mount Tallac, at an 

 altitude of 9,000 feet. 



Attention has already been called* to the peculiar asymmet- 

 rical emargination of the last ventral segment in hirticollis, 

 rcpanda, i2-guttata, oregona and limbata. To this list must 

 now be added deprcssula and eureka. Inasmuch as all these 

 species (with the possible exception of limbata, in which the 

 character is less marked) are recognized as mutually more or 

 less closely allied, this unusual structure appears to have a 

 special significance. 



The fact seems not to have been recorded, or if so, it has 

 escaped me, that in scutcllaris and varieties the front is quite con- 

 spicuously hairy in the male and scarcely at all so in the female. 



The Greenhouse Coccidae, I. 



By GEORGE B. KING, Lawrence, Mass. 



(Continued from page 233.) 



HEMICOCCIN^E. 



10. Orthezia insignis Dougl. 1887. 



Found in a greenhouse in New York (R. H. Pettit), on 

 greenhouse plants at Amherst and Cambridge, Mass. (L,ouns- 

 bury), under glass at Trinidad, and found on exotic plants in 

 the hothouse at Kew, England. It seems to be a general 

 feeder on greenhouse plants, and is found living out of doors 

 in Europe and America. 



ASTEROLECaNIINvE. 



11. Asterolecanium aureum Boisd. 



Is found on leaves of Hippeastru m , cultivated under glass at 

 Trinidad, and a greenhouse species of Europe. Signoret. 



12. Pulvinaria cistri Bauch. 



This is recorded from a greenhouse, and its native home is 

 uncertain. 



* ENT. NEWS, 1895, p. 179. 



